A letter from the founder of Foxconn, the world’s largest iPhone assembler, played a major role in persuading China’s Communist Party leadership to accelerate plans to dismantle the country’s quixotic “Zero COVID” policies, The Wall Street Journal reports citing “people familiar with the matter.”
Keith Zhai and Yang Jie for The Wall Street Journal:
In the letter to Chinese leaders, Foxconn Technology Group founder Terry Gou warned that strict Covid controls would threaten China’s central position in global supply chains and demanded more transparency into restrictions on the company’s workers, the people said. Mr. Gou sent the letter a little more than a month ago as Foxconn’s factory in the city of Zhengzhou was rocked by turmoil over Covid restrictions.
Chinese health officials and government advisers seized on Mr. Gou’s letter to bolster the case that the government needed to speed up its efforts to ease its tough Covid-19 controls, people familiar with the matter said. The eruption weeks later of nationwide protests gave policy advisers further ammunition to press the case for relaxing measures, two of the people said.
The turmoil has added fuel to plans by Apple to shift some of its production from China, long the dominant country in the supply chain that built the world’s most valuable company.
MacDailyNews Take: A letter is nice, but ’twas the protests that really turned things in China.
The real power in China, and everywhere else, ultimately lies in the hands of the people, not in government bureaucrats. – MacDailyNews, December 7, 2022
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Anyone (AOC, Ilan Omar) who fancy socialism or communism should try China, North Korea, Cuba, Venuzeala first, before wishing it happens in the USA.
I’m sure most of the people in Western Europe would disagree. Social Democracies are the norm there, where private enterprise works hand in hand with a strong social safety net. So you have universal health care, free public education up to and including university studies, mandatory sick days and a host of other benefits all paid by reasonable taxes.
Absolutely no one on the left wants to see our country’s economy managed like China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela or Russia. But I would gladly trade our unrestrained capitalist model for the systems in Finland, Denmark or Sweden — where no one has to worry about going bankrupt because of medical bills, workers can’t be fired on a whim, and where the government invests in its people, not just its corporations.
Funny thing about a leash, either party can tug at it.
The right wants smaller, less invasive government. The left took a loooong time to ease covid authoritarian control.
Bill, are you living in an alternate universe?
What party held the federal executive branch to implement the pandemic health measures?
What new measures has the current administration forced that crimp your life?
What executive lied for months about the importance of common hygienic health practices and immunization, then when he fell victim to the coronavirus, received SOCIALIZED emergency healthcare paid for by taxpayers?
Most importantly:
What does any of this have to do with Macs?
What does YOUR post have to do with Macs? If you don’t like a post, article or topic, then don’t engage in the comments. It seems apparent that you found McFadden’s comment interesting or relevant enough for you to enter the conversation… which is fine.
The right wants less invasive government…?!?!
Like not imposing abortion restrictions….that kind of thing…?
Well it’s less invasive to the feotus you’re trying to KILL
It’s still the government telling an individual what they can or can’t do with their own body. They can’t even harvest the organs of the deceased if they haven’t agreed to it before hand — so a dead person has more body autonomy than a pregnant woman.
It’s a baby’s body we’re discussing not the DEFLECTION women’s body. Your argument is framed by Leftist talking points and semantic slogans to broadcast in Democrat campaign ads.
Again, it is a developing child’s body we are talking about, it is the life of that child we are talking about that is lost in the discussion.
So say what you really support. You support a women’s body to become a killing field for any reason right up to birth with ZERO REPERCUSSIONS.
The majority of Americans have NEVER supported late term abortions and look to Europe for stricter abortion limits which are sensible. That is what Republicans support and pushing to achieve policies that are moral.
What all the Leftists here are arguing is no restrictions and the hell with morality in practically any policy. In closing, thank your mother was pro life or you wouldn’t be here…